(Muan=Yonhap News) Reporter Hyeong Min-woo = On the 12th, Jeonnam Province announced that Song Hyo-soo, Kim Jae-ki, and Lee Byeong-yeon have been selected as the "2025 Jeollanam-do Organic Farming Masters."
The Organic Farming Masters system designates farmers who have systematically established organic farming methods through long-term experience and research in agricultural fields as masters, and utilizes them as on-site professors for eco-friendly agriculture.
Song Hyo-soo from Goheung has developed a lime-sulfur farming method using natural agricultural materials.
To control pests and diseases, he sprays a mixture of rice vinegar, canola oil, boiled Ganoderma lucidum water, and lime sulfur, and increases the soil's fertility by supplying organic matter through deep plowing of the rice paddies.
Kim Jae-ki from Jangheung manages seeds with a sulfur rice cultivation method, spraying safflower extract in seedling boxes to cultivate healthy seedlings.
During transplanting, he uses sulfur liquid and earthworms, and sprays a mixture of self-made oil, mulberry root fermentation liquid, and safflower extract with yellow earth sulfur to control pests and diseases.
Lee Byeong-yeon from Haenam acquired the rights to use the Japanese rice variety "Inochi no Ichi" in 2016, and uses his own seeds for cultivation.
After harvesting the rice, he grinds it back into the paddy fields to increase the organic matter content and uses sulfur, vinegar, and other natural materials to prevent pests and diseases.
Park Hyun-sik, Director of the Jeonnam Province Agricultural, Livestock, and Food Bureau, said, "The selected organic farming masters are on-site experts who have accumulated practical technology and experience in the field of rice organic farming," and added, "Jeonnam Province will support education and promotional activities to spread the excellent organic farming methods developed by the masters throughout Jeonnam."